Adult Community Mental Health Clinics provide a service for persons between 18 - 64 years who have, or at risk of serious mental illness.
Services include assessment and referral to:-
* Acute inpatient; residential and non-residential rehabilitation; and other generic health services
* Case management
* Crisis assessment and treatment
* Mobile intensive support and treatment
The Continuing Care Team provides non-urgent assessments, treatment, case management, support and continuing care services to people in the Greater Bendigo area with outreach services in Elmore, Heathcote, Donald, Inglewood and Charlton.
The Mobile Support and Treatment Team provides intensive, long-term support to people with prolonged and severe mental illness who can safely be managed at home.
Referrals can be made by calling the Regional Triage Service on:-
1300 363 788.
There are five regional centres (Swan Hill, Echuca, Kyneton, Castlemaine, Maryborough) that have smaller community mental health centres under Bendigo Health's umbrella, to service their immediate surrounds and provide outreach services to the more remote areas.
The adult mental health service is further divided into distinct teams that offer a full range of services from screening and assessment to long term case management, all to provide continuity of care.
These teams are:-
* Regional Triage Service/Psychiatric Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
* Continuing Care Team
* Mobile Support and Treatment Team
* Early Psychosis/Early Intervention Service
* Dual Diagnosis Service
* Primary Mental Health Service
* Eating Disorders Service
* Depression and Anxiety Research Team